False-Seeming as a pilgrim goes,
Disguised, to Evil-Tongue; and shows
Constrained-Abstinence likewise
Herself to him in saintly guise
[. . .]
Forthwith Constrained-Abstinence
Appeared as a demure Beguine,
Attired in robe of cameline,
With fair white kerchief round her head,
The while with saintly look she read
Her psalter. At her waist was hung
A paternoster, thereto strung
By girdle-cord of purest white.
[. . .] In attire
False-Seeming dressed him of a friar.
And e'en as though for her he yearned
Towards Abstinence his face was turned.
Humble he looked and meek of cheer,
And nought of pride he let appear,
But aped a novice, mild and young,
While round his neck a bible hung.
Roman de la Rose, v. 12697-700, 12712-19, 12747-54
(Trans. by F. S. Ellis)
False-Seeming as a pilgrim goes,
Disguised, to Evil-Tongue; and shows
Constrained-Abstinence likewise
Herself to him in saintly guise
[. . .]
Forthwith Constrained-Abstinence
Appeared as a demure Beguine,
Attired in robe of cameline,
With fair white kerchief round her head,
The while with saintly look she read
Her psalter. At her waist was hung
A paternoster, thereto strung
By girdle-cord of purest white.
[. . .] In attire
False-Seeming dressed him of a friar.
And e'en as though for her he yearned
Towards Abstinence his face was turned.
Humble he looked and meek of cheer,
And nought of pride he let appear,
But aped a novice, mild and young,
While round his neck a bible hung.
Roman de la Rose, v. 12697-700, 12712-19, 12747-54
(Trans. by F. S. Ellis)
